Our travels in our VW T4

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Finding a Van

After 2 years plus without a van, my fingers started twitching and I was weekly keeping an eye out on eBay, Gumtree and any local papers to see if there were any vans.

The only thing I had noticed was they were getting more expensive, including the vans that were not far from heading to the scrap yard. Nothing had really sparked my attention until a holiday, and happened upon a van less than a mile from where we were staying on gumtree that looked very good although pricey. So called up instantly for a viewing.

My van history Part 2

After a summer riding my bike to work, and wondering why my money was not all disappearing having no van to spend it on the nights started drawing in and the search began again for a van, another interesting find online, high mileage but sounded to be in otherwise good condition. Took my dad with a recovery truck to have a look a quick haggle and brought it back home.Read More »

My van history Part 1

After previously owning three T4’s, the first was bought off eBay unseen as a shell without an engine not a recommended way but they were so far out of my price range budget dictated it, I had sourced a caddy 1.9 engine and fitted it with my dad within a week and got myself on the road.Read More »